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Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Riveting ideas on presenting better information design. Few would disagree: Life in the information age can be overwhelming. Through computers, the Internet, the media, and even our daily newspapers, we are awash in a seemingly endless stream of charts, maps, infographics, diagrams, and data. "Visual Explanations," the latest book by Edward R. Tufte, a Yale design professor, is a navigational guide through this turbulent sea of information. The book is an essential reference for anyone involved in graphic, Web, or multimedia design, as well as for educators and lecturers who use graphics in presentations or classes.

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Page 18Partial visual knowledge about size of a work can be conveyed by maintaining a
consistent relative scale throughout an entire set of reproduced images, similar to
a photograph showing a group of objects at a constant scale relative to one ...

Page 100Above, we see a mix of photograph, drawing, number, and word that make jive
partial, parallel descriptions. It all began at the 84th meeting of the American
Astronomical Society in Haverford, Pennsylvania on December 27, 1950, when a
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Page 101chaotically two-dimensional and dense clustering of faces in the photograph, a
conventional typographic caption would not do. Instead this diagram arrays
numbered heads as an intermediary code, linking the picture to names of the 146
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An eye-opening read. As a linguistic who deals with databases, this book dramatically improved my writing and design of graphics for publication.Read full review

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In "Visual Explanations," Tufte walks us through various case studies of visual explanations (charts, graphs, graphics, diagrams and maps). Some of the case studies are about great works, while others ...Read full review